cinched
/sɪnt͡ʃt/
"cinched" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cinched” is uncommon English (frequency #86,144 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,144
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of cinch
Corpus desk
Index EN-cinched · cinched · English
cinched · rank #86,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,144
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chrystal
Nearest frequency peer: chrystal (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “cinched”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Christmassy
Christmassy
13,861 corpus weight
- chromatogra…
chromatographic
13,860 corpus weight
- chrystal
chrystal
13,858 corpus weight
- cinched
cinched
13,857 corpus weight
- classist
classist
13,856 corpus weight
- Cleon
Cleon
13,853 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cinched” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sɪnt͡ʃt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cinched” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cinched is uncommon English at frequency #86,144 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /sɪnt͡ʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of cinch".
Zero misspellings are on record for cinched in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cinched, spelled C-I-N-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of cinch
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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